fixate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 6
/fɪkˈseɪt/
(UK)
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/fɪkˈseɪt/ (UK) · /ˈfɪkseɪt/ (US)
Definition of fixate
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
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verb
- (transitive)To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
- To stare fixedly at something.
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(intransitive)To attend to something to the exclusion of all others.
“He needed something to fixate on now that the repainting was done.”
- (intransitive)To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From fix + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or Latin fixus (“fixed, solid”) + -ate.
Words you can make from fixate
41 playable · top: FIXT (14 pts)
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6 words3-letter words
18 words2-letter words
15 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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